Debian Weekly News - March 7th, 2000

Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community. This is a combined 2 week summary.

We've now passed the first Release Critical Bug Horizon, and 20 packages
will soon be
removed from potato. The bug horizon has been a success, based on the
number of release critical bugs that have been closed in the past 2 weeks --
for a while less than 200 were open, down from 300+ a few weeks ago -- fewer RC
bugs than any time since last summer. The
number of bugs is on the
rise again though, and another bug horizon may be called.

Ddiff was
announced. Ddiff is a tool to generate binary diffs between different
versions of .deb packages.

Two security problems were fixed this week. Fixes are available for
remote exploits of the
nmh and
htdig packages in slink. There was discussion of a man exploit on
bugtraq, but Debian uses a different man package and is not vulnerable.
Similarly, bugtraq discussion indicates we aren't vulnerable to the
dosemu
problems present in Corel Linux.